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  Craig 4:04 pm on May 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: twitter, work   

  It’s not even 4 pm and I’m totally ready to go to bed! I went in to work at 4 am this morning, and didn’t sleep very well beforehand, so I’m really dragging right now. I seriously fell asleep a minute ago while sitting at my desk – a phone call woke me up.

  In other news, I’ve had a bunch of people start following me on twitter the past couple days. This would be cool, but I have no idea who these people are or why they might be interested in following me. They’re probably just hoping that I’ll “re-follow” them, but that’s just not gonna happen. I don’t get people that just follow any and everyone just hoping that some will follow them back. Why are they so obsessed with gaining more followers? I’m only going to follow people that I either a) know personally, or b) have interesting things to say about things I’m interested in. I don’t care who follows me (i’ve got nothing to hide), but if they’re doing it just to get me to follow them back, they might as well look elsewhere. That may not be proper “twitter etiquette,” but that’s just the way I roll.

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    Matt Leonard 6:54 pm on September 24, 2009 Permalink

    Whats up Craig? When u coming to the AZ? hey don’t be to alarmed, added u as a friend on Twitter from a political blog I run (MainstreetRadical.com). I don’t contribute much, I just pretty much manage the site

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  Craig 9:05 pm on May 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: environment, poverty   

  Plant with Purpose 

  Plant With Purpose

  It’s a question we all ask ourselves when we see people suffering. As human beings, we want to help—but how?

  For us, the breakthrough came when we saw first-hand the connection between poverty and the environment. Many people think of poverty and the environment as separate issues, but in fact they are hugely interdependent. Most of the world’s poor are rural poor. Many are subsistence farmers, completely dependent on their environment for survival. But as a result of widespread deforestation, the land isn’t providing like it used to.

  Land that once bore bountiful crops that could be sold or eaten, isn’t producing. Streams that used to provide water to drink, now run dry. Out of desperation, the poor cut down more trees to sell as firewood, even though doing so means further destroying their one chance of survival.

  By reversing deforestation, Plant With Purpose helps the poor restore productivity to their land to create economic opportunity out of environmental restoration. Since 1984 we have helped more than 100,000 people in some 230 villages lift themselves out of poverty through our holistic approach to sustainable development.

  We invite you to join us, and Plant With Purpose.

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  Craig 5:40 pm on May 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: firefox, software, technology, windows, wordpress   

  Beta Lovin’ 

  I’m what you might call an “early adopter.” I’m kinda obsessed with being on the cutting edge when it comes to technology. I’m always excited when I piece of software that I use is updated – it’s always a rush to explore the new features and functionalities. What’s even better is when software developers make pre-release versions available for the public to test. These “alphas,” “betas,” and “release canidates” are unfinished products and often buggy, but they give those of us brave enough to try them a first glance at new features, as well as an opportunity to provide feedback to the developers. I’m currently using a few “beta” releases that I’m really enjoying:

  • I recently installed the Release Candidate of the next version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 7. There’s been a lot of positive buzz going around about Windows 7, in vast contrast to all the negative press surrounding Vista’s release a few years ago. I installed the Release Candidate on a separate hard drive to test it out without tampering with my Vista installation, and have been using it almost exclusively for the past couple weeks. Even though it’s not considered “stable” by Microsoft, it seems to me to be quite rock solid. It’s not a huge departure from Vista, but there are some cool new features and it promises to be more stable and not as much of a resource hog as it’s predecessor.
  • Once I had Win 7 installed, my first move was to download my favorite browser, Firefox. I figured since I was testing a pre-release OS, I might as well test out a pre-release browser as well, so I grabbed the 3.5 beta 4 version of Firefox. Some of the new features include faster JavaScript rendering, private browsing, and improved tab management and recovery. Other than the occasional crash, the only downside of running the beta is that many of my extensions are not yet compatible.
  • Finally, today I upgraded the software that runs this blog to the 2.8 beta 2 version of WordPress. I’ve only had it installed for a few hours, so I can’t really make a judgment about it yet, but I’m excited about some of the new features.
   
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  Craig 4:25 pm on May 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: welcome   

  Hey there folks, welcome to Craigland! This is just my little slice of the web, in which I may share some of my thoughts, opinions, observations, etc. It will also serve as a hub of all my online activity and serve as a platform to share of the cool stuff I find out there.